Thermomix in Auckland, New Zealand

Thermomix - the most advanced kitchen appliance in the world replaces most of the appliances in your kitchen - it mills, mixes, beats, grinds, steams, cooks, whips, weighs and much more. Thermomix is like an extra pair of hands in the kitchen - it does the hard work and will help you save time, money and improve your health and wellbeing!

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

This recipe is from a colleague of mine - as given to her by her Indian grandmother. When she was extremely ill, this dish with rice was the only thing she would eat ... thankfully she is now a picture of health.

This takes minutes to make, is a great flavour combination and so easy in the Thermomix.

Add the mustard seeds and continue to cook until they pop (will take a couple of minutes at least).
Add the beetroot cut into large chunks. Process at speed 7 for 2-3 seconds (the sound of the engine will always let you know when something is processed) and cook for a minute at Varoma, speed 1.
Season generously with salt and pepper and serve.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

When I got up this morning I decided to make hot cross buns. My first mistake was to just grab a recipe from a blog I found and go with it. Of course had I bothered to make a coffee first, my brain may have engaged and I would have corrected the mistakes which ended up in rather hard boring buns. In fact I only cooked half of the dough as I knew it wasn't right.

I decided I just had to try again and fix my mistakes. I based my recipe on the one in the 'Everyday Cookbook' with a few changes.

I soaked the dried fruit in a mixture of ginger syrup (from my home-made preserved ginger); limoncello (home-made) and Pedro Ximenez for about an hour

For my spice mix - 15g of mixed spice and 5g of cinnamon

1 tsp instead of 2 tsp of salt

1 tsp or my orange dust!!

On the 2nd attempt I thought about the order I placed the ingredients in the Thermomix - adding the sugar and yeast first so they have a chance to activate and the salt last so it doesn't kill the yeast.

Place the chillies, garlic and ginger in the Thermomix bowl and process at speed 6 for 3 seconds. Add all but a couple of tomatoes and process at speed 6 for 5 seconds or until well blended. Scrape down the sides and add the remaining tomatoes and process for a couple of seconds until roughly chopped so that there is a bit of texture left.

Add the remaining ingredients and cook at 90 to 100, speed 1 for 1 hour or until set.

Note - I started off at 100 with the rice basket on top. When it started to boil, I turned it down to 90 and removed the basket so that it could reduce. I scraped it down every 15 mins. Part way through I did increase the temperature to 100 when I was sure it wouldn't boil over.

I love to cook, eat and am fascinated about the health benefits of raw food. I also love anything that makes my life easier - so when I found out that Thermomix had finally made it to NZ I knew I wanted one.